Preparing kids for P5 in 2011

[Augmum]

jtoh:

Yes. No marks if working is wrong for algebra.

Yalor, but to her, still worth the try,
as her time taken to derive answers when using algebra as compared to model or other methods is shorter.
with the time saved, can be used to check for accuracy.

[janet88]

Hi Mummies,

I printed out some CA1 Section A Maths for son to attempt…but most of them are not taught yet…so at a loss how to improve on his speed and accuracy.
Has anyone bought Li Fanglan’s ‘Primary 5 FAN-Math MathExpress Speed Maths Strategies’ ? Is this book meant for Section A ? Pls advise. Thank you.

[ksme]

janet_lee88:

Hi Mummies,

I printed out some CA1 Section A Maths for son to attempt...but most of them are not taught yet...so at a loss how to improve on his speed and accuracy.
Has anyone bought Li Fanglan's 'Primary 5 FAN-Math MathExpress Speed Maths Strategies' ? Is this book meant for Section A ? Pls advise. Thank you.

Janet,
I heard somewhere (cannot remember now) that for section A, 1 mark = 1 min. I believe Paper 1 is total 40 marks so should take 40 mins to finish paper and 10 mins left to check. Maybe you can pick out the questions already taught and then timed according to how many marks for those questions.

I have not bought the FAN maths so cannot comment. I recall the Maths book by Ammiel Wan thread has some recommendations from Nicklebee on what Maths books to train which section. You may want to check it out.

Hope this helps.

[janet88]

ksme:

janet_lee88:

Hi Mummies,

I printed out some CA1 Section A Maths for son to attempt...but most of them are not taught yet...so at a loss how to improve on his speed and accuracy.
Has anyone bought Li Fanglan's 'Primary 5 FAN-Math MathExpress Speed Maths Strategies' ? Is this book meant for Section A ? Pls advise. Thank you.

Janet,
I heard somewhere (cannot remember now) that for section A, 1 mark = 1 min. I believe Paper 1 is total 40 marks so should take 40 mins to finish paper and 10 mins left to check. Maybe you can pick out the questions already taught and then timed according to how many marks for those questions.

I have not bought the FAN maths so cannot comment. I recall the Maths book by Ammiel Wan thread has some recommendations from Nicklebee on what Maths books to train which section. You may want to check it out.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

[Brenda10]

janet_lee88:

Hi Mummies,

I printed out some CA1 Section A Maths for son to attempt...but most of them are not taught yet...so at a loss how to improve on his speed and accuracy.
Has anyone bought Li Fanglan's 'Primary 5 FAN-Math MathExpress Speed Maths Strategies' ? Is this book meant for Section A ? Pls advise. Thank you.

Hi Janet

I guess may be some school is in the faster pace as such you find some topics are not taught yet.

For section A, the questions are straight forward and by exposing to more the children will gain experience once they come across the similar questions in the next paper.
E.g. If the question is asking for area of Triangle that the school is not teach yet, we can refer the text book and brief them the standard formula and how to look out for height and base etc.

I can’t comment in this book since we did not buy. The above is our experience with dd when working on Section A and Section B last year.

Note: You may want to consider to buy more CA1 papers to practice in this area as I find the amount of CA1 papers provided for on line printing are not sufficient for practiciing. Just my 2 cents thought

Hope the information is useful. :celebrate:

[pixiedust]

Hi Janet, I also don’t have the book you mentioned but previous years I have used Fan-Maths speed strategies books. It is more for fast mental calculation drilling. For school papers, my set comes with 4 school’s CA1. SA1 and SA2 more but CA2 also 4 schools. Hope this helps.

[Chenonceau]

I use 2 years’ worth of exam papers. This year, we are doing 2009 and 2010 P5 papers. This gives a pool of 18 SA1 papers. For next year, I bought 2010 P6 papers this year, and will begin to use them in November 2011 to prepare for P6 in 2012.


Because of the large pool of 18 SA papers, I skip all the CAs. We don’t do them at all. In Nov 2010, I gave one P5 SA1 paper from 2009 as a diagnostic. DS uses a highlighter pen to mark out topics he has not been taught.

I later go through the highlights and match to the math textbook chapters. Then we tackle topic by topic using a Step-by-Step topical math practice. I try to cover at least 3 topics before school starts, and stay ahead of the school by 2 topics at least once school starts.

One month before CA1, I start giving him SA1 practices. At least 1 every week… This will see him through both CA1 and SA1 comfortably. 2 weeks after start of school hols, I administer the SA2 diagnostic. He highlights again. We do topical practice again. When school starts in July, he does an SA2 every week. Timed trial.

1 week to 3 days before any exam, he is not allowed to study. 2 weeks of June and December are Pure Play Weeks. The rest are full work days. This works for me and is no stress for DS because he still gets to play hard… And to relax before exams.

[Brenda10]

It seems for P5 to P6, more focus will be on Maths and the time spent on the other three subjects like EL, CL and Science are totally no match.

Just my 2 cents thought

[verykiasumummy]

hi mummies,


i think i hv the FAN maths too… my son finds the standard too wide, there are easy questions and also the very hard ones… if i’m not wrong, this FAN maths book has a 5A and 5B? i couldnt rmb where exactly it is now as my son just stops doing it after 2 units… how?

[Chenonceau]

Brenda10:

It seems for P5 to P6, more focus will be on Maths and the time spent on the other three subjects like EL, CL and Science are totally no match.

Just my 2 cents thought

That is so good to know! Thanks for sharing!!